Important Items:

Continuing Undergraduates

After final grading is complete for the spring term, Financial Aid will begin sending
Fall/Spring award email notices to continuing undergraduate students
who have completed all the steps required in the
financial aid application process.

1.) Register / Pre-register

Continuing undergraduate students need to register / pre-register for a minimum of six credits in a degree program
before financial aid will review their financial aid information for award processing.

4.) Monitor MyUAlbany Important Items

As a result of UAlbany receiving and processing the FAFSA, items may appear on the MyUAlbany Important Items List.
Important Items are required to be completed before financial aid processing can continue.

The Financial Aid Office will send notifications via student email until the item is complete.
The email notice directs students to review and respond to the Important Items List on MyUAlbany.

Important Items can be documentation requests, problems with your FAFSA that need to be fixed, processes that need to be completed by the student or
processes that need to be completed by the parent.

Important Items can appear at any point during the aid processing cycle.
Items most commonly appear on the Important Items List after the FAFSA is filed and after students accept their Financial Aid Award.

When an item is listed on the Important Item list, the item can be clicked on for more detailed information.

Completed items will be removed from your Important Item list within 2-5 days after you actively respond with the required action or documentation.
Unresolved Important Items will prevent the following:

processing of a financial aid award

financial aid awards applying to your account as "anticipated aid"

refund processing

5.) Submitting Documentation to the Office of Financial Aid

Requested documents should be submitted to the Office of Financial Aid in one of the following ways: